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A29665	A discovrse opening the natvre of that episcopacie, which is exercised in England wherein with all humility, are represented some considerations tending to the much desired peace, and long expected reformation, of this our mother church / by the Right Honourable Robert Lord Brooke.	Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4911; ESTC R17972	85,248	148

me This labour In a word they have beene These With One hand they have laid Pillowes under Princes and all Governours appointed by God that so they might fall softly while they thrust them downe with the Other the stronger Hand Arme and all When These have beene so surely though gently laid downe asleepe They have beene bold to tread on them yet with Plush Slippers lest they should chance to wake stirre and get up againe and by Them as so many staires or steps mount up themselves into this Height of Tyranny Thus have they still opposed and advanced themselves against and above All that is called God or is worshipped And If with your owne thoughts you will please to goe on in the Chapter you will finde some other Media as Lying Wonders and others by which they have ascended I shall not neede to parallel Popish and Episcopall Media to Their Height All the world sees them now For they were not done in a Corner What meanes their Crying up an unjust and illimited power in Princes Is not This their bleating out of an illegall unwarranted Prerogative with which all Our pulpits have rung of late intended to tickle Princes till they be luld asleepe or to sow pillowes under them till They themselves can thrust them downe not onely from that Tyranny which Bishops would perswade them to usurp but also from their wholsome and lawfull prerogative What meaneth their Buzzing in Princes Eares That Kings cannot stand without such Bishops that if they should be put downe the Church and State too must needs be Ruined to This purpose they cry Blood Blood They can never fall without Blood so some of them have vaunted But Let them remember what Christ said to One to whom they so much pretend He that smiteth with the sword shall perish by the sword They know also whose Coat was sent home to their Holy Father with this Inscription written with his owne blood Iudge Holy Father whether This be Thy Sonnes Coat or not I have not forgotten how they have dealt with the People Ministry Gentry Nobility All sorts of men For they have many staires to step up by to such an Height but Princes are their highest steps their first Aime That which they have most sounded in the Peoples Eares is the Church the Church the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord by This as by a stalking horse they have come much neerer then else they could But now their Vizard beginnes to fall off and Men beginne to see the true power of the True Church and the Tyranny of that Antichristian Mock-Church which under the Maske of Indifference hath brought in most abominable Superstitions and most intolerable slavery on the Persons Liberties Bodies and Soules of Men. For they have pressed Consciences even unto Gasping yea and would not be satisfied though they daily heard the sighes and groanes of those bleeding hearts which themselves had stabd with the poysoned sword of Church-Indifference Indeed they have used Both hands and have stricken with Both. What the Keyes could not break the Sword hath cut And it had been much more tolerable If This Sword had pierced no farther then the Eares of Men with which they have yet beene much more busie then He was whom they bragge to have beene their first Predecessor Yet methinkes it was a sad Omen that this Sword should cut off the Eare of Malchus which signifies they say a King or Kingly Authority At This they strike indeed through the Eares and Hearts of so many Loyall Subjects We neede not seeke their End in all This. It cannot be doubted but by all These Meanes they aime at One End which is also the Popes to pull downe all Other Power and set up their owne Thus Thus they Oppose and Exalt themselves above All that is called God or is Worshipped as is more fully represented in another place of this Discourse Now let any man Living speake Are These Bishops These Usurping Prelates to be suffered in a Church or State where there is any respect to Right Church Government or True State Policie since it is Evident They are truly Papall most properly Antichristian and as Antichrist must Oppose and Exalt themselves above all that is Worshipped or Called God Which is most True Popery as hath beene demonstrated And as Popery Destructive to all Church and State Policie Doubtlesse some such Apprehensions as This wrought in their Breasts who being offered have refused Bishop-ricks and being possessed could not rest till they had Disinvested themselves againe Histories are full of forraine and Domesticke Examples of This sublect Such was Niceph. B●emnides chosen Patriarch of Constantinople Weringbaldius chosen Bishop of Triers Theophilus Bishop of Adiana Aminonius cut off his Eare being Bishop that so he might be uncapable of That Function Eugenius the Philosopher left his Ministery rather than he would bee a Bishop Bassiances an Elected Bishop was by Memnon whipped before the Altar three houres together because he would not be made a Bishop Adrian with us refused the Archbishopricke of Canterbury being pressed thereunto Two or Three Popes might come into this Catalogue Clement the first was One E● quis fuit Alter Shall I name Marcellus He neither refused nor resigned the Papacie yet solemnly professed be saw not how Those that possessed such high places could bee saved O but had These piously considered what Good they might have done in such high places or duly remembred their Owne or their friends advancement they could never have dome This But Ignoti nulla cupid● For answer to This Objection I shall give you some instances of Those that have resigned up their Bishop-ricks after they had held them long enough for a full Tryall Yea perhaps there be more of This kinde than of the other though the Proverb be Aegrius Ejicitur quam non admittitur Hospes Of These were Vlbranius Bishop of S●etune Arnulphus Bishop of Ment● Add● Bishop of Lions Vi●erbus Bishop of ●atisbone Henger Bishop of M●●●s Michael Bishop of Ephesies with many more Amongst our Owne was Edmund Boniface and Robert Kalwarby Both Arch-Bishops of Canterbury Will. Beavose and William De Sancta Maria Bishops of London One of Lincoln and Two of Coventry I may adde Miles Coverdale who being deprived in Queene Maries dayes would not be reiny●sted in Queene Elizabeths but taught a Schoole There is One Pope Cornelius And Gregory the Great must not be forgotten who said He that affects the Primacie of the whole Church must be Antichrist or His Predecessor If some few Walloons or men of Geneva should declaime against Episcopacie They would prevaile but little because it would be said of Them perhaps as of That great disturber of the Church of old Insaniunt quia non sunt Episcopi But now Ex Ore Tuo judicaberis Bishops contend with Bishops not with Words but Deeds I beseech you consider that Flesh and Blood is not wont to refuse or part with such great

not long before he shew'd his Ends. Turne your Eye but a little about and you shall see an Emperour stand barefoote at his G●ute Here One kneeles to kisse That foote that spu●●●●th off His Crowne There one holds the stir●up while that Proud Bishop steps up into the saddle And have not our Bishops the same Designes with their Holy Father Even to free themselves from all Power and ●● bring all things under their owne Power What meaneth of his Maxime of Episcopacie that a Clergie man cannot fall under the Execution of a Civill Magistrate Except they first degrade him which they may refuse to doe as long as they please Is not This to Exempt themselves from all Civill Jurisdiction What is the sense of This that for breach of Their Church Injunctions they may Excommunicate people Ministers Lords Kings themselves whom they please But shortly This to reduce all men Even Princes as well as others to plenary Obedience to themselves And when Once They have passed that sentence on their Soveraigne at their owne fancie I doubt not but some of Them would be ready to receive the Crowne from their kneeling Prince as of old If any King would againe so farre forget himsel●e and lay his Glory in the dust to be trampled on by such proud insulting Prelates Which God forbid Their Insolent Words and Actions vented lately against the Crowne are very sutable to these Principles Some of themselves in open Court of Judicature have dirst to affirme They were beholding to none but Christ for the place they held Others of Them and Their Creatures have said They are under no Law of man Some have preached point blanck that Their standing did not at all depend on the Crowne Others have flatly denied the King to be Head and Governour in Ecclesiasticall Causes over all persons though they cannot but know that This Title was given mainly to Exclude any other Earthly Head as it is Interpreted by Order of Parliament All of them Erect Episcopall Courts send out Summons Exercise Jurisdiction Sentence Fine Imprison doe what they list in their Owne name Though All the Bishops put together Vis unita est fortior da●e not to do so for the High Inquisition had a Commission under the Broad Seale and yet Every particular Bishop Exerciseth Jurisdiction under their owne seale by their owne power in their owne name without any Commission directly against Statute by which they all incurre a Praemunire Indeed they have learnt to faune upon Princes and would make them beleeve all This is for their Honour and Advantage yet they are but Impostors This is but to stroake the Horse as the Proverb is till they are well up in the Saddle for at That they aime and thither would they come which God forbid I could heartily wish the Kings of the Earth would be pleased to read Master Broughtons Epistle in his Refining the Roman Fox Or Ni●hol de Clemengiis in his Excellent peece de Corrupto Ecclesiae Statu Or that Noble Learned Lords incomparable Mysterium Iniquitatis presented to Our Late Learned Soveraigne King Iames though in some late Prints It hath beene refined by an English-Romish Index Expurgatorius yet It will still with the other represent the sleights of this kinde of Episcopacie in such lively Colours that I beleeve no Prince would trust them againe I neede not goe farre to seeke instances that may fully represent how much Our Bishops have in all ages promoted the Weale Peace and Honour of This Kingdome and Cowne For their Treasons against the State and King want not a Register I could briefely present you with a true Emblem of Episcopacie ab ovo ad malum and yet not goe higher than the Conquerour Lanfranck would have conquered the Conquerour and by gentle insinuations have perswaded him to submit his Scepter to the Triple Miter but Etiamsi suasit non persuasit Art could not prevaile and therefore Anselm went more rudely to worke Though Rufus forbad him yet with many thankes and much honour from the Pope he went to Rome for his Pall. After he had oftentimes bearded the King in many matters he succeeded so well that he attempts the same against the First Henry and left not till he had caused the Scepter to bow and the Crowne to totter In Stephens time Two Great Prelates dispute about Precedencie and at last passing by the King they call the Pope to be Moderator B●ckets heights are well knowne and scarce parallel'd in amy Story Onely as Henry the second that Great Prince did suffer sore stripes here so did the Duke of Thoulouse in France for joyning with the Albigenses That was done by a Pope This by a Bishop King Iohn fell with his whole Kingdome under an Interdict for some quarrell betwixt himselfe and Two or Three Prelates nor could he buy or begge his peace but on his knees resigning his Crowne ●o proud Pandulph In Edward the seconds time Gaveston was much abetted by Coventry in this a Traitor to his Countrey What prankes Winchester plaid with Edward the First Stratford with Edward the Third and with the second Richard Norwich was touch the ●ore Henry the fourth was ill handled by Yorke that waged warre with him at the same time Arandell vow'd he would not leave a slip of that Religion which then he saw Dawning in England In Henry the sixts time Yorke● Quarrell with W●●chester lost all that England had gaine● from France at last Yorke sides with Warwick against the King Edward the fourth had little r●●rse no pardon the new Arch-Bishop Ely ended better then he beganne but it was per accidens for first he perswaded Buckingham to claime the Crowne but He refusing at least not daring to stirre for himselfe sets him on Richmond the true Heire But you will say These were all Papists and lived in the dark times of Popery True and were not Their Soveraignes such also were not Kings and Bishops of one Religion then Are they more now hath a Protestant Prince now more reason to trust a Protestant Prelate than a Popish King a Popish Bishop Let all the world judge Seeing in Those times it was no difference in Religion But Malignance against Civill Government that produced Th●se Commotions in Those Bishops But since the Pope and Popish Religion is confessed to be the Cause of all those Treasons and Rebellions what if I prove Prelacie and Popery to be the same in re and onely to differ in name This we stall Essay anon In the meane time It is worth considering whether Our Prelates be not more like to s●de with the Pope against a Protestant then Popish Prince I will over-looke the darke times of Popery Let us beginne with the Reformation which yet could hardly have entrance for that strong Opposition the Prelates still made Alas what Commotions have they still raised in Scotland ever since the Reformation Wee have felt what Our Parents onely saw They Eate at least suffered a soure